When my 7-year-old son heard on the radio about a Russian invasion and bombing of Georgia, he was very concerned -- until I assured him that his grandparents in Atlanta were just fine.  Given his age and the degree of emotion with which the news was reported, his confusion was understandable.  What is less understandable to me is why so many adults with little more knowledge of the region are so upset.  Georgia (we really need a new name for that country, I would call it Caucasian Georgia but I am not sure that would help) is a long way off, possesses little that we need and as an ally offers us a lot more in the way of entanglements than it does in the way of benefits.I don't want to dismiss the moral aspect of what is happening there.  War is always a human tragedy.  And for the people of Georgia, South Ossetia, and Abkhazia this is undoubtedly a major event resulting in repercussions and enmities that will last decades.  (But then in the Caucasus,...(Read Full Post)